3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask, Cow and Plough, Stoughton. Amber with an off-white head. Aromas are sweet toffee malts with caramel, fruit and hops spices. Flavours are rich and malty. Sweet citrus with some zesty sourness. Nice toffee malts. Some sulphur notes. Dry towards the finish with grapefruit bitterness. A good beer in great condition.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Conditioned at the Hop Pole Inn, Aylesbury. Golden with a fluffy white head. Fruity aroma and fruity taste. Malty, sweet and moreish. Very nice.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Stillage at the Ship & Mitre, Liverpool 21/04/2006
Fruit aroma. Bronze coloured slightly spicy and pale. Crisp and slightly bitter lasting dry finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned at the Rising Sun, Frampton Cotterell, Gloucs 8/4/2007. Bronze best bitter with strong head. Fruit was to the forefront in both aroma and flavour, with a decent dry aftertaste. A pleasant enough beer.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: MAY 11, 2009 Cask (Helsinki Beer Festival 2004)
Good solid English bitter. Sweet malty aroma, with light fruits. Taste starts grainy/bready, but with a lovely bitter finish with no sharp edges. (5-3-8-3-13=3.2)
Rerate: (6-4-7-4-12=3.3)
Cask (Pullman, Helsinki). Rich orange, healthy loose head. Grape and fruit aroma. Soft carbonation, refreshing palate. Plenty of retronasal esters. Slightly mushroomy taste, but plenty of barky bitterness without being muddy or dusty. Quite simple but very tasty. Finish quite bitter and quite long.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Beer number 11 in the Great Ayr/ Glasgow pub crawl. Cask at 3 Judges. Pleasant fruity amber bitter. Good body, nice to have something with a bit more complexity than the light blond bitters.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Rook & Gaskill York 5 May 06. Brown colour. A creamy white lasting head clinging to the glass. Very pretty. Fruity aroma. A nice bitter aftertaste - after a while.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Old Bank, Turku. Hazy amber, staying coarse & foamy head. Mildly nutty aroma, little fresh apple, acidic sourish note, not really hops, pretty mild overall. Flavor has strong rotten fruitiness, old apples, little hazelnut, sourish, even funky notes. Some mussels and cheese in there too, along with pretty strong bitterness, though there’s no aroma hops found. Medium bodied, nearly flat palate, really lush. Old school bitter.
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